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CLASS 11 Poetic Devices

The document discusses different poetic devices used in poems including transferred epithet, alliteration, personification, oxymoron, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery, paradox, antithesis, enjambment and repetition. Examples of each device are provided from poems like Photograph, The Laburnum Top, The Voice of the Rain and Childhood.

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CLASS 11 Poetic Devices

The document discusses different poetic devices used in poems including transferred epithet, alliteration, personification, oxymoron, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery, paradox, antithesis, enjambment and repetition. Examples of each device are provided from poems like Photograph, The Laburnum Top, The Voice of the Rain and Childhood.

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CLASS- 11(English Core)

POETIC DEVICES
1. Photograph
 Transferred Epithet: Washed their terribly transient feet
 Alliteration: Stood still to smile, terribly transient and silence silences
 Personification: Its silence silences
 Oxymoron: Labored ease
2. The LaburnumTop
 Alliteration: September sunlight, tree trembles
 Simile: Sleek as a lizard
 Metaphor: It is the engine of her family, showing her barred face identity mask
 Personification: The whole tree trembles and thrills
 Transferred Epithet: her barred face identity mask
3. The Voice of the Rain
 Metaphor: I am the poem of the earth
 Hyperbole: bottomless sea
 Oxymoron: day and night, reck’d and unreck’d
 Paradox: I give back life to my own origin
 Imagery: Soft falling shower,I rise impalpable out of the land, descend to lave the
droughts
4. Childhood
 Alliteration: Hell and heaven, was that the day, was it when I found my mind was
really mine, whichever way
 Antithesis: Hell and heaven
 Enjambment: Was it the time I realized that adults were not All they seemed to
be, They talked of love and preached of love, But did not act so lovingly, Was
that the day
 Repetition: When did my childhood go? Was that the day! (repeated many times
in the poem)
Explanation

1. Transferred Epithet- The figure of speech where the adverb is transferred to


another noun
2. Alliteration- Repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of two or more
consecutive words.
3. Personification- where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given
human qualities
4. Oxymoron- A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with
opposing meanings
5. Simile- Comparison between two things using like or as
6. Metaphor- an indirect comparison between two things. Generally a quality is
compared
7. Hyperbole- A literary technique where an author intentionally uses
exaggeration for emphasis and effect
8. Imagery- it uses vivid description and vivid language, deepening the reader’s
understanding of the work, by appealing to the senses
9. Paradox- It is a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in
reality it expresses a possible truth
10.Antithesis- This poetic device pairs opposite or contrasting ideas adjacent to
each other
11.Enjambment-It is the continuation of a sentence to multiple lines
12.Repetition- using the same word or phrase over and over again

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